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2020-11-15 Africa Horn
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Ethiopian cities hit by rockets from Tigray forces
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[DW]
The Æthiopian government said on Saturday that fighters from the northern Tigray region had fired rockets at the cities of Bahir Dar and Gondar in the Amhara region.
The Amhara region's troops have been fighting alongside government forces against soldiers loyal to the Tigray ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)
...yes, they are Marxists... in a conflict that erupted earlier this month.
Debretsion Gebremichael, leader of the TPLF, told AFP that while he did not know anything about an attack, "any airport used to attack Tigray will be a legitimate target."
DEATHS REPORTED IN GONDAR
The airports in both Bahir Dar and Gondar are used for military as well as civilian aircraft.
However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
Getachew Reda, a spokesperson for the TPLF said in a statement on Tigray TV: "Our forces have conducted a counterattack to the Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
s that we've been sustaining repeatedly. Military targets in Bahir Dar and Gondar have been hit with missiles."
"As long as the attacks on the people of Tigray do not stop, the attacks will intensify," he added.
Residents reportedly heard gunfire on Friday night, however, this has not yet been confirmed.
A doctor at a hospital in Gondar, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
to AFP, said that "there were at least two dead" and "10 to 15 injured." He said the injuries he saw came from a kaboom rather than bullets adding that there were "no civilians at all" among the dead or injured.
A statement from the Amhara regional government said that "the situation was controlled within a few minutes" and "our cities are in peace."
CONFLICT MAY SPREAD
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a military offensive against the Tigray region on November 4 after accusing local Tigray troops of attacking federal military camps in the area. The TPLF denies the claims.
Tigray is a federal state with many autonomous powers and home to many ethnically distinct people who make up around 6% of Æthiopia's 110 million-strong population.
Now considered a rebel group by the central government, the TPLF is also the leading party in Tigray and once dominated the government coalition in Addis Ababa. The party no longer feels represented by the central Æthiopian government.
Hundreds of people have already been killed in the festivities and more than 14,500 people have already fled into neighboring Sudan.
DW spoke with Samuel Getachew, a journalist from Addis Ababa about the conflict. Asked what lay at the heart of the violence, Getachew said: "You have to remember the TPLF was in charge of the Æthiopian federal government for 27 years so they've only gone back to their own state in the last three years. So it looks like it's a mixture of a power struggle and not wanting to accept the changes that are happening in Addis Ababa." 
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